The Altadena Libraries invite you to check out Touch & Go: An Art Exhibition, featuring the work of artists Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Alison Chen, Carmen Mardónez, Ariana Page Russell, and Rebecca Potts Aguirre at the Main Library through August 30.

Rebecca Potts Aguirre’s Rising

Touch & Go is an exhibition of art as an act of connection. Feminism, politics, motherhood, memory, and the artists’ lived experience, environment, and community can be found as common thematic threads. The artists engage in tactile dialogues of these themes through the acts of making and the varied visual and physical evidence of that making.

Meet the artists and learn more about their work during the closing reception and art talk from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 27 in the Main Library Community Room. Light refreshments will be provided.

Bell Johnson’s spatial work discusses gendered labor, consumerism, and dichotomies of high and low art. (www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com)

Chen confronts the ramifications of the transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality. (www.alisonchen.com)

For Mardónez, artistic work is a way of expressing resistance. (www.carmenmardonez.com)

In Page Russell’s latest series, Bloom Back, impressions from local growth stay long enough to photograph, temporarily changing the tactility of the skin, mirroring what is pressed against it. (www.arianapagerussell.com)

Creating pictorial works using play-doh and polymer clay, the work of Potts Aguirre is inspired by the intersection between ecological concern and the female experience, especially that of motherhood and trauma. (www.rebeccapotts.com)

Jacqueline Bell Johnson’s Excerpts from The Pillow Lounge

Alison Chen’s Wrapped Around Her Fingers

Carmen Mardónez’s Evening sculpture

Ariana Page Russell’s Wild Horehound